Cyclones 3
Lowell 1
Aug. 12 in Lowell
Our boys eked out a win against Lowell last night in extra innings during the first match of a would-be doubleheader that was cut to one game due to rain.
Brooklyn finally made the most of Minor League Baseball’s dumb new rule in which teams start each extra inning with a runner on second base when Manny Rodriguez was placed there in the eighth, then reached third on a Ross Adolph groundout before rounding home on a Spinners fielding error and putting the Clones ahead 2–1.
The Cyclones added an insurance run later that inning, when Jose Miguel Medina singled in Carlos Cortes, who reached first after being hit by a pitch, moved to second on the fielding error that allowed Rodriguez to score, and advanced to third on a wild pitch.
The Clones took an early lead, scoring one in the first when Medina knocked a single that plated Adolph, who had tripled. But Lowell tied it up in the sixth, necessitating the extra-innings play.
Hurler Jaison Vilera shutout the Spinners in his five innings on the mound, before being replaced in the sixth by Adam Hill, who gave up Lowell’s only run. Billy Oxford relieved Hill in the seventh and kept the Spinners’s bats at bay, earning his sixth win of the season.
Brooklyn has two days off as six of its players head to Penn State for the New York-Penn League All-Star Game tomorrow, before our boys return to MCU Park to face Vermont on Wednesday at 7 pm.
